Alibaba Cloud, also known as Aliyun, is a Chinese cloud computing company, a subsidiary of Alibaba Group. Alibaba Cloud provides cloud computing services to online businesses and Alibaba's own e-commerce ecosystem. Alibaba Cloud's international operations are registered and headquartered in Singapore. As in Aug. 2019, the company made an announcement to rename Alibaba Cloud to Alibaba Cloud Intelligence. Alibaba Cloud offers cloud services. Services are available on a pay-as-you-go basis and include Elastic Compute, Data Storage, Relational Databases, Big-Data Processing, Anti-DDoS protection and Content Delivery Networks. Outside of the status as the largest cloud computing company in China, Alibaba Cloud operates in 21 data center regions and 63 availability zones around the globe. As of June 2017, Alibaba Cloud is placed in the Visionaries' quadrant of Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service, Worldwide.
History
September 2009 – Alibaba Cloud is founded and R&D centers and operation centers are subsequently opened in Hangzhou, Beijing, and Silicon Valley.
November 2010 – Supported the first Single's Day Taobao shopping festival, with 2.4 billion PVin 24 hours.
July 2015 – Alibaba Group invested a further US$1 billion to Alibaba Cloud.
August 2015 – Alibaba Cloud's first Singapore data center opened. Singapore is announced as Alibaba Cloud's overseas headquarters.
October 2015 – MaxCompute took the lead of the Sort Benchmark, sorting 100TB data in 377s compared with Apache Spark's previous record of 1406s.
October 2015 – Alibaba Cloud Computing Conference was held in Hangzhou and attracted over 20,000 developers.
November 2015 – Supported the 11.11 shopping festival with a record of $14.2 billion transactions in 24 hours.
April 2016 – Alibaba Cloud partnered with SK Holdings C&C to provide cloud services to Korean and Chinese companies.
May 2016 – Alibaba Group and SoftBank formalized joint venture to launch cloud services in Japan that utilize technologies and solutions from Alibaba Cloud.
June 2016 – Alibaba Cloud expanded its data center operations in Singapore with the establishment of a second availability zone. Alibaba Cloud also achieved two new certifications overseas: Singapore Multi-Tier Cloud Security standard Level 3, and the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard.
February 2018 - Alibaba Cloud Indonesia data center commences operations.
Data Center Regions
Alibaba Cloud has 19 regional data centres globally, including China North, China South, China East, US West, US East, Europe, United Kingdom, Middle East, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, Malaysia, India, and Indonesia. The Data Center in Germany is operated by Vodafone Germany and certified with C5.
POLARDB is a RDBMS developed by Alibaba. It uses a distributed shared-storage architecture.
History
POLARDB was first released in September 2017 for beta testing, and commercialized in April 2018. A major update was released in 2019, providing compatible features with MySQL, Oracle Database and PostgreSQL. In 2018, a paper about POLARDB's file system PolarFS was published in VLDB conference 2018
In 2019, a paper about POLARDB storage engine X-Engine was published in SIGMOD 2019 On November 11, 2019, POLARDB supported sales activity during Singles' Day event.
Features
POLARDB is a Cloud-Native database, providing up to 100TB in storage, and up to 88vCPUs and 710GB of memory for computation
AnalyticDB is an online analytical processingdatabase system on Alibaba cloud. It offers both PostgreSQL and MySQL versions. It was developed for high concurrent data processing with minimal delays and real-time analytical queries in petabyte scale. It runs on over 2000 physical machines on Alibaba Cloud. It uses a read/write decoupling architecture with independent read nodes and write nodes, as well as a set of coordinators for communication. It also supports a systematized index engine and a directed acyclic graph execution framework. The system works for internal business operations of the Alibaba Group and its external clients from a variety of business sectors, including entertainment, logistics, e-commerce, meteorological analysis, finance, and public transit, among others.
History
AnalyticDB was first released in May, 2018, and the latest version 3.0 was released in 2019 On April 26, 2019, TPC published TPC-DS benchmark result of AnalyticDB. In 2019, a paper about the system design of AnalyticDB was published in VLDB conference 2019.
Academic Partner
In 2017, Alibaba Cloud and the Singapore University of Social Sciences jointly launched a university-accredited entrepreneurship program for tertiary students.
